Internal Awards Fall 2020
Pre-Tenure Grants Development Award
Dr. Ka-Wah Wong, Department of Physics
Project Title: X-ray Observations of Black Hole Systems
Dr. Claudette Brown-Smythe, Department of Counselor Education
Project Title: Examining Caribbean Nationals Immigrant Issues: Migration Experiences to the US and Acculturative Stressors During the Transition Process
Pre-Tenure Grants Development Fenton Endowed Award:
Dr. Sarah Saputo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title:Investigation of therapeutic asthma medications on the virulence properties of the oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans
Provost’s Post Tenure Fellowship Award
Stevie Oakes, Department of Dance
Project Title: Communion: a dance film and video installation project
Scholarly Incentive Award
Dr. Tasneem Zaihra, Department of Mathematics
Project Title: Analyzing Police Stop and Frisks Data from New York State Patrol to Understand Racial Disparities in the Stop and Frisk Policies
Dr. Elizabeth Masarik, Department of History
Project Title: Out of the Realm of Sentiment: Infant Mortality, Single Mothers, and the Formation of the Welfare State
Dr. Kristin Heffernan, Department of Social Work
Project Title: How informed are social workers and mental health counselors in their professional knowledge of working with persons who are transgender
Scholarly Incentive Endowed Vestling-Casey Award
Dr. Christian Wilkens, Department of Education and Human Development
Project Title: Rural Alaska Schools: A Guide for Leadership
Internal Awards Spring 2020
Pre-Tenure Award
Dr. Afeez Hazzan: EnhAnCing QualiTy of LIfe Of African-AmericaN CAregivers ThRough Creative AcTivitieS (“ACTION ARTS”)
**Selected for the Pre-Tenure Grants Development Fenton Endowed Award
Post-Tenure Award
Dr. Ruhan Zhao: Operator Theory on Spaces of Analytic Functions of Several Complex Variables
Dr. Francis M Kozub: Examining the use of function–based, antecedent physical activity intervention on older adolescents with development disabilities and challenging behaviors
Dr. Jennifer Ratcliff: Factors Promoting Posttraumatic Growth in Sexual Minority Adults Following Stigmatizing Bullying Experiences in Adolescence
Dr. Jie Zhang: Revising and validating an accessible online course of " Introduction to Special Education” with 100% Open Educational Resources (OER)
Scholarly Incentive Award
Dr. Susan Lowey: Future Health Professionals Interest in Older Adults: A Grounded Theory Exploring Students’ Perspectives
Dr. Kathleen Olmstead: Literacy for All Students
Dr. Jennifer Ramsay: Archaeobotanical Sampling of the Late Neolithic Structures near Wadi al-Qattafi, in the Black
Stevie Oakes: Engagement in a new creative process with emerging, NYC based choreographer
Dr. Rongkun Shen: Expanding the storage capacity of the current DELL server
Dr. Neal Keating: Preliminary Research for a Study of Bunong Language Ecologies in Vietnam
Dr. Ewelina Barski-Moskal: Second language acquisition of object pronouns in Spanish at the beginner and intermediate language levels
Dr. Alexander Smith: The Sinis Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic survey of the Sinis Peninsula and the surrounding landscapes of West-Central Sardinia, Italy
James Hansen: Gender and Modern Dance
Dr. Hong Yin: Solvability of forward-backward stochastic partial differential equations with non-Lipschitz coefficients
Dr. Jennifer Haytock: War and American Literature
Dr. Marium Abugasea Heidt & Dr. Janka Szilagyi: Students' and parents' perceptions on world (foreign) language learning and how this predicts longevity of world language learning.
Dr. Barbara LeSavoy: COIL and NYI international teaching and research activities in Russia
Dr. Robert Dobmeier: Adult perceptions of sexual abuse by clergy
Dr. Jacques Rinchard: Evaluation of reproductive potential of deepwater sculpin from Lake Ontario
**Selected for the Scholarly Incentive Endowed Vestling – Casey Award